Most widely studied option evaluation strategies rely on knowledge accumulated across repeated experiences. But how should options be evaluated in ...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Where do objective functions come from? How do we select what goals to pursue? Human intelligence is adept at synthesizing new objective functions on the fly. How does this work, and can we endow arti...

Interactive Cognition Lab at USC, led by principal investigator, Dr. Nina Rouhani.

Grace Lindsay is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Data Science at New York University. Nine universities received an Oct. 1 letter from the Trump administration with an offer: If you agree to a ...

Science and public research are under attack in this country. Indiscriminate cuts to federal research agencies and political interference are causing research studies to be paused, programs halted, an...

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

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The locus coeruleus works like a “reset” button that separates the memory of one meaningful event from the next.

The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

Do goals, beliefs, and desires affect visual experience? This question has long been controversial in cognitive science. There exists extensive litera…